svn commit: r332856 - head/usr.bin/grep

Kyle Evans kevans at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 21 13:48:43 UTC 2018


On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: kevans
> Date: Sat Apr 21 13:46:07 2018
> New Revision: 332856
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/332856
>
> Log:
>   bsdgrep: Fix --include/--exclude ordering issues
>
>   Prior to r332851:
>   * --exclude always win out over --include
>   * --exclude-dir always wins out over --include-dir
>
>   r332851 broke that behavior, resulting in:
>   * First of --exclude, --include wins
>   * First of --exclude-dir, --include-dir wins
>
>   As it turns out, both behaviors are wrong by modern grep standards- the
>   latest rule wins. e.g.:
>
>   `grep --exclude foo --include foo 'thing' foo`
>   foo is included
>
>   `grep --include foo --exclude foo 'thing' foo`
>   foo is excluded
>
>   As tested with GNU grep 3.1.
>
>   This commit makes bsdgrep follow this behavior.
>
>   Reported by:  se
>

Just to be clear, because I don't want to mislead- se's report was
specifically that I broke the previous behavior. Later investigation
found that both behaviors were wrong.


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